The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-01

tae United States fish commissioners Washington.
~ y, and paying freight on can.
0cae carp grown and raise faster than leather
o'I VIII weigh four pounds at eighteen months
old and viii lay at two years old. In Nav or June
we! deposit their eggs brush cane or any thing
eiio' STANDS IN the pond, and the warm rays of the
sun hatch them
arp should be fed regularly to make them grow
80 'loy VIII eat almost anything scraps from the
t"p1e' wheat bran mixed with water and baked or
e ei pIead. Care should be taken that no other
lNn are allowed to live in the pond with the cars
% tney VIII destroy the carp eggs. Ducks and geese
sAouIo be Kept from the pond during the summer
months as they are destructive also to fish eggs
Use the Shotgun freely to clear the pond of moe
o"sils' heFons, kingishers, etc April is the best
Time 10 shoot moecasins. An cold fashionod' fish
basket Kept IN the pond will soon clear it of moe
caslhs and terapins. Any one wishing further in
IoTnhauon address, with stamp, ]. w. Brandon
GAINESVILLE, Pike Co., Ga.I
D. L. NJ, Mount Hebron, Ala: l. On what kind
| OF SOIL does the pecan tree do best? o How many
trees should be planted to the acre? 8. How soon
| 40 they begin to bear? 4 How much sooner do they
pear II transpanted than if grown from the seed?
O. are tney sure crop, and how much is the aver
age yled per tree! Where is the best place to get
! plant?
l. On rich alluvial soils, but will grow on
any rich soil The pecan is very closely relat-
| ed to the hickory and will thrive on soils suit
ed to it,
2. Plant forty feet each way, or about twen-
ty-fve trees to an acre.
| .. Eight to ten years from seed, varies with
richness OF soil. On poor soil would take o
| still longer time.
e. Cannot say.
o. Quite sure. full-grown tree will yield
several bushels, but we cannot give figures.
o. Get some fresh nuts of good quality from
Iexas DO this as soon as the new crop gets
on the market. Bury the nuts in the ground
immediately, and about tho first of March
plant them where they are to grow. If oily
nuts are kept out of the ground for a long time
after maturity. they are not apt to terminate,
A M. X, Oxford, Fla: have been composing
cotton seed meal and muck together and find it to
De a GOOD fertilizer but think perhaps it might be
improved by adding Canada ashes to the compost
would elter injure the other by SO doing?
No injury would,result from adj ding theashes,
as cotton seed meal ferments very promptly. a
good plan would be to compost muck and ashes
hrst; and then short while before using, mix
IN the meal. The ashes will be valuable adj
dltlon especially for light sandy soils. Eight
or ten bushels might be added to every cord of
muck. 1t would be well to make the compost
OF muck and ashes some months before it is to
be applied-the meal to be incorporated only a
few weeks before.
F. c. F, Millican, Texas october II, 1887: I see
something about a grass or clover called
Laespedeza, Where can get the seed?
Difficult to gather, and not generally in the
market. Have not seen any advertised
recently.
J.Y. W., BRENNAN, Washington county, Tssas: I
have about fifty tons Q,5o0 bushels) cow-pen
manure; cattle fed on cotton seed hulls and meal,
How, and when must it be applied for cotton: Black
loan land, capacity one-half bale cotton per acre
How would corn do, with one haldful of same tothe
hilR If best, would like to put in drill. How much
should be applied to an acre?
You do not state whether there is any litter
mixed with the dung, or in what state of
mechanical division it is. Pure COW dung is
usually close and cheesy, difficult of uniform
distribution, slow in fermenting and yields up
its plant food slowly. That you have ought to
be of good quality, on account of richness of
food; but assuming it to have the qualities
mentioned above, would advise to bulk it in
pens and develop fermentation, both for the
purpose of breaking up its close texture and
making its contents more readily available for
plants. If this is done now, it ought to be
ready for application in drill by March. In
putting in pens, see that it is moistened thor
oughly; tread it little as it is thrown in pens,
but not much. A rather open texture is favor
| able to fermentation in sluggish masses. On
such land as yours, a ton may be applied to an
acre in the drill early in March. Would be
good for corn; applied round the hill prefer
able to putting in drill Better results would
follow if you could add ashes to the manure,
but large quantity would be required, some
200 or more bushels.
I. c. Fairulav Ark. T. has tOwnehi,,
right for patent fence. G., in the same township,
wishes to use the same fence on his furm Can he
do SO without first buying of B. farm right for the
fence?
What has B. bought but the right to coontrl
the use of said fegce in his township? Take
that away, and he is left only farm right
L. H. sunberry, N. c., asks how to prevent a colt
from raaring up. Put on saddle with good pifth;
attach ring to middle Of girth; hitch reins in ring
and run tnrou Oh rings Of bit and use you would
common reins. To work in harness, use trace chain
with ring in end; throw this across back; run the
other end through ring and Tass through rings of
bit The latter will prevent horse from breaking
lose when tied or greyent kicking.
JOHN W. CHAPMAN.
Okapilco Ca, October % 1857.
B. L. g., East Point, Ga: !. Which is cheapest
for a compost heap cotton seed at SIP per ton, or
cotton-seed meal at so per ton? 2. Is sorghum of
any value to fatten hogs with? Ifso, which variety
is best?
l. Meal is the cheaper of the two. It takes
nearly three tons Of seed to make one of meal,
and, so far as our observation goes, one of
meal, by weight, is equivalent to three of seed,
as manure. 2. Yes, extremely valuable. Let
it mature up to the period when seed are in
the dough- then feed stalks and heads to-
gether to hogs. The early amber cane is as
good as any we know.
j.. W., Hames City Fla: VIII sweet potatoes or
sweet potato vines hurt mule? / have been told
they will both give mule worms. How many
sweet potatoes would you advise for a feed for a
work animal?
Not if judlciously given. The potato is not
a well balanced food, and ought not, therefore,
to constitute the sole food of an animal But
as a part of the daily ration it is hcalthful and
nutritious. Both the vines and roots should be
! fed in moderation. The former, especially,
like green clover, will, if fed freely before the
animal gets accustomed to it, tend to produce
collie There is some danger Of their choking
animals. Both should be chopped up, would
not give a mule more than peck Of potatoes
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